In America in 1877, 101 years after the Declaration
of Independence:
Minor league baseball was
organized
The first Easter “egg roll”
was held on the White House lawn
President Hayes withdrew
federal troops from New Orleans, ending military involvement in Reconstruction
in the South
A horse named Baden-Baden
won the 3rd Kentucky Derby
10 members of the Molly
Maguires were hanged in coal country in Pennsylvania
The San Francisco Public
Library opened
The New York Athletic Club
staged the first American amateur swim meet
Thomas Edison announced his
“talking machine” (phonograph) invention
The first issue of the
American Bicycling Journal was published in Boston
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| Sketch of Crazy Horse |
….and a U. S. soldier with
a bayonet murdered the Oglala Sioux chief, Crazy Horse, outside a cell in an
Army prison at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. Crazy Horse was one of the Sioux
leaders whose warriors wiped out Custer’s Seventh Calvary at the Little Bighorn
in 1876.
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Subber 2016 All rights reserved.
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